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The fact that the levels found were so minuscule suggests that they are simply naturally occurring traces of this radionuclide.

By comparison, the concentration of strontium-90 in U.S.-grown vegetables typically peaks at 9 pCi/kg, which is thousands of times higher than the trace amounts detected in our fish.

Grains, leafy vegetables, and dairy products are the leading sources of dietary strontium-90 in the U.S.

The consensus scientific view has been that the radiation leaked from Japan poses no risks to consumers of seafood that (like our species) do not migrate close to Japan.

And our latest test results (available upon request), which detected virtually no Sr-90, support those expert scientific estimates.

About strontium-90

Along with cesium-137, Sr-90 is one of the more dangerous radionuclides, because it has a long half-life of 30 years, and can accumulate in bone.

The main sources of Sr-90 in the ocean have been fallout from atmospheric nuclear tests in the 1950s and 1960s.

The Fukushima Dai-ichi accident and the amounts released from March to June, 2011 produced less than a one percent increase in ocean levels of this radioisotope.

Sources

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. The Fukushima accident raised levels of radioactive strontium off the east coast of Japan by up to a hundred times. June 11, 2013 http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=131949&CultureCode=en

N.Casacuberta, P.Masqué, J.Garcia-Orellana, R.Garcia-Tenorio and K.O.Buesseler. Sr-90 and Sr-89 in seawater off Japan as a consequence of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear accident. Biogeosciences. http://www.biogeosciences-discuss.net/10/2039/2013/bgd-1